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From: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz>
To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:21:05PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> 
> The first one changes because it's over 1 megabyte, but the second
> one does not change.  So you get:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 gad  staff     1951k Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c
> -rw-r--r--  1 gad  staff    999123 Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c
> 
> Okay now, how many people can look at those lines and immediately
> see that the first file is "about" twice the size of the second
> file?  Probably nobody, not without pulling out a calculator.  The

Point taken. What about:

-rw-r--r--  1 gad  staff      1951k Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c
-rw-r--r--  1 gad  staff    999123  Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c

or:

-rw-r--r--  1 gad  staff   1951k   Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c
-rw-r--r--  1 gad  staff    999123 Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c

I can see Oliver's proposal making a lot of sense here, the more
since we avoid the discussion about K/M/G/T being base 2 or 10.

	Joerg
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